No man is an island. What you tolerate has an impact on you, or your children, or your children's children's children. You may not have connected the dots on how, for example, free love has impacted your family, but it is there.
Government's purpose (as stated by the Bible, not by the DoI) is to restrain evil. If it can not do that (and I'll agree with you that many have perpetrated evil) then it can not protect rights.
Shalom.
I don't tolerate it, you may have misinterpreted that.
You may not have connected the dots on how, for example, free love has impacted your family, but it is there.
I understand how things affect other things, which is precisely why I head the trouble off instead of hiding my head in the sand or advocating violence to do what cannot be done.
Government's purpose (as stated by the Bible, not by the DoI) is to restrain evil.
DoI?
In anycase, I disagree if you mean that everyone must conform to your or my bible's definition of evil.
I'll settle for saying it is evil to violate the rights of others. God can and will sort it out when the time comes, in the mean time putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.